From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:59:11 GMT
Subject: reducing object store size with remote alternates or shallow clone?
Message-ID: <14526ED4-F65C-4DF2-ABDD-BF1E76DAC2B0@kernel.crashing.org>

I'm trying to package a linux kernel source tree and would like to just tar up a tree with .git/.  However this is a bit problematic as the size of tgz is about 500M which exceeds the limit of the image I'm trying to produce.

I was wondering if anyone had a means to reduce the size drastically.  I'm ok if a post processing step is required to get full git support.  One idea I had was doing a shallow clone and if there was some means to "reconnect" it to a full work state after the fact.

thanks

- k